Melt a dessert-spoonful butter and stir slowly into it twice as much flour, add gradually a gill of milk.

For near a minute, it was a matter of dispute between us, whether he should come out of the lake or I go into it; but I actually got his gills in plain sight.

INGREDIENTS.To every lb. of lump sugar allow 1 gill of spring water.

In the New Jersey State Prison, one pound of bread, half a pound of beef, with potatos and cabbage, (quantity not specified,) one gill of molasses, and a bowl of mush for supper.

One was against a boy of ten for stealing a gill of goat's milk.

If now we lift the mantle and gills, we find beneath the principal organs: the stomach, with a winding alimentary canal; the heart and liver; the blood-vessels, branching from either side of the heart to join the gills; and a fleshy muscle passing from one valve of the shell to the other, enabling the animal by its dilatation or contraction to open and close its shell at will.

Later I lose my gills and my tail.

Her quivering fins and panting gills she hides

Having done this, Captain Tonkins furtively poured a gill of brandy into the tin cup, and drank it under cover of the buffalo robe.

The Reptiles are also cold-blooded, though their system of circulation is somewhat more complicated than that of the Fishes; they breathe through lungs, though part of them retain their gills through life; and they lay eggs, but larger and fewer ones than the Fishes, diminishing in number in proportion to their own higher or lower position in their class.

Two men are walking by the poly-phloesboean ocean, one of them having a small tin cup with which he can scoop up a gill of sea-water when he will, and the other nothing but his hands, which will hardly hold water at all,and you call the tin cup a miraculous possession!

Spiral or screw gill; Open link chain; Rotary; Ring Carrier Circular.

Stir in a spoonful of flour, and when smooth a gill of milk, or the stock from the butter peas.

Cover with a crust prepared in the following manner: Into a cup of thin cream stir a gill of yeast and two cups of flour; let this become very light, then add sufficient flour to mix soft.

The remedy is to substitute half a gill of vitriol in place of tartar.

Mackerel should never be washed when intended to be broiled, but merely wiped very clean and dry, after taking out the gills and insides.

In the ordinary screw gill box, the screws which traverse the gills are uniform in their pitch, so that a draught is only obtained between the feed rollers and the first gill, between the last gill of the first set and the first of the second, and between the last gill of the second set and the delivery roller.

INGREDIENTS.To every lb. of fruit, weighed before being stripped from the stalks, allow 3/4 lb. of loaf sugar, 1 gill of water.

But though they naturally breathe air (oxygen) as we do, yet they are formed to extract it from the water; and when compelled to take air from the surface, the gills, or lungs, soon get inflamed, and death at last puts an end to their sufferings.

The bottle contained three gills of strong spirits of turpentine, which, in a short time he drank off.

[Illustration: Common Mussel, Unio, cut transversely: a, foot; bb, gills; c, mantle; d, shell; e, heart; f, main cavity, with intestines.

The circumstance of this fish having red gills, though given as a standing rule in most cookery-books, as a sign of its goodness, is not at all to be relied on, as this quality can be easily given them by art.